Parental Translations

[woodwardiocom]

object permanence

"I want to play with your phone, and I know it's around here somewhere!"

cruising

"Nothing on the coffee table is safe. This is your only warning."

baby sign language

"I'm waving my hands at you. Now you gotta figure it out from context."

Comments

[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

Object permanence is a stone cold bitch.

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

They are like cats, aren't they? We call our older cat "Captain Gravity" for his love of verifying that objects still fall down. The waving hands [paws] that have to be interpreted from context sounds familiar, too. . . . Gummitch was right!

[spinrabbit.livejournal.com]

Sometimes babies play gravity games, but often the dropping-things game is about the social aspects of getting it retrieved for them.

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

Our cat is more likely to pull things down, or knock them down, when he thinks we aren't paying attention to him—particularly early in the morning. So the difference may not be as great as it seems.

[pale-chartreuse.livejournal.com]

"Nothing... is safe"
The next couple of decades of your life, in a nutshell.